“How can robots coexist with animals, trees and plants without putting too much pressure on the ecosystem?”

In this episode of Science Bits, dedicated to robotics applied to agriculture and forestry, we continue our conversation with Filipe Neves dos Santos, a researcher at INESC TEC and lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

After exploring some of INESC TEC’s robotic solutions in the previous episode, this time Filipe takes us behind the scenes of the process: how a real market need is turned into a robot or technology that is ready to use, from securing funding to the teamwork at TRIBE Lab, INESC TEC’s Laboratory for Robotics and IoT for Smart Precision Agriculture and Forestry.

Listen to the episode here. (Only available in Portuguese)